Entering Text
At many times while you are using your phone, you need to enter text, such as when storing a name in the Phonebook, writing a new message, creating your personal greeting or scheduling events on your calendar.
You are provided with the following text input modes:
•Neopad Hindi mode*
This mode allows you to enter Hindi words with virtual keypad which gives the user option to select one of five letters assigned on keys easily and
•T9 mode**
This mode allows you to enter words with only one keystroke per letter. Each key on the keypad has more than one letter – when you press the 5 key once, J, K or L may be displayed. The T9 mode automatically compares your keystrokes with an internal linguistic dictionary to determine the correct word, thus requiring far fewer keystrokes than the traditional ABC mode.
•ABC mode
This mode allows you to enter letters by pressing the key labelled with the required letter once, twice, three or four times until the letter displays.
•Symbolic mode
This mode allows you to enter special characters.
•Number mode
This mode allows you to enter numbers.
*
is registered trademark of NEOPAD, Inc.
**
is a registered trademark of Tegic Communications, Inc. and is licensed under U.S. Patent 5,818,437/ 5,953,541/ 6,011,554.
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Entering Text
Changing the Text Input Mode
When you are in a field that allows characters to be entered, you will see the text input mode indicator at the bottom of the display.
Example: Entering a name in Phonebook
Enter name
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To change to another text input mode:
1.Press the right soft key indicating the current text input mode.
2.Scroll to the mode you want to use by pressing the Up or Down key.
You can use the Add word option to add new words into the T9 dictionary. See page 43.
The Language select option allows you to change the text input language.
Note: If you want to exit the menu without changing
the mode, press the 
soft key or 
key.
3.Press the Select soft key to confirm the highlighted text input mode.
Quickly Changing the Text Input Mode
To switch between the Press and hold the
Number and previous mode 
key.
Symbol and previous mode 
key.
ABC and T9 modes | right soft key. |
(English input mode) |
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